Sound Semiconductor Inc
Solid State Music, later known as Solid State Microtechnology for Music or simply SSM (Solid State Music) was a producer of analogue ICs for synthesizers in the 1970s.
History
SSM was founded by Ron Dow and John Burgoon in 1974, with assistance by Dave Rossum of E-MU Systems. The company originally produced synthesizer chip sets, and provided bare boards for the hobbyist to experiment with early SSM chips. They also produced S-100 bus computer cards, including a Sound Synthesizer Card. [1][2] SSM was acquired by Precision Monolithics in 1988, which was in turn acquired by Analog Devices in 1990. New SSM-badged ICs continue to be introduced by Analog Devices, but bear little resemblance to the original SSM line. Several early members of the SSM team reformed in 2017 as Sound Semiconductor to develop audio ICs in the spirit of early SSM products.
Major products
ICs are more compact and economical than discrete circuitry to implement subtractive synthesis modules such as voltage-controlled oscillators, voltage-controlled filters and voltage-controlled amplifier. Even a complete synthesizer voice can be packaged in an integrated circuit. SSM and CEM ICs were used in many synthesizers produced by various electronic music instrument manufacturers, such as Sequential Circuits, Oberheim, Roland, Crumar, EMU, Moog Music and Doepfer. ICs were key components enabling the first programmable polyphonic synthesizers such as the Prophet 5.
See also
References
- ↑ Electro-Music Engineer Electronics & Music Maker, Apr 1983
- ↑ Solid State Music, S100 Computers (archived)
- The Prophet from Silicon Valley: The Complete Story of Sequential Circuits by David Abernethy, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015, ISBN 1512198323 Search this book on
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External links
- Synth's Inside Out
- Sound Semiconductor, Inc.
- SSM, Emulator Archive
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